Note 26 Accounts receivable

Total accounts receivables amounted to SEK 10,166 million (8,709). In business area Construction, Civil engineering and Project Development accounts receivables have increased while business area Industry has almost unchanged accounts receivables compared to 2017. For more information regarding accounts receivable see note 35.

Accounts receivables were written down in the income statement with actual and feared bad debts for a total of SEK 11 million (17). Actual bad debts amounted to SEK 22 million (11) in the Group, of which SEK 16 million were written down in 2017. The losses resulted from some of the company’s customers going bankrupt. Most of the losses stemmed from business area Industry. The parent company had no bad debts.

Peab AB is a public company, Company ID 556061-4330. Domicile Båstad, Sweden.

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